Tenth Generation

768. Jaume MORÉ was born (date unknown). The origins of the Moré family are uncertain. Certain records in the Family History Library indicate that they may have come to Spain from France in the early 16th century. I have also been informed that Moré is a Sephardic (Spanish) Hebrew name meaning "teacher." The likelihood of tracing the family further back than this database, using written documentation, is unlikely.

From the 16th to the early 19th century, most of the information about the Moré family and related lines is from the church at Tossa, in Gerona province of Spain. This area is strongly Catalan, and most of these records are in the Catalan language -- which seems to be somewhere between French and Spanish. The most notable result in this database is the use of Catalan given names -- sometimes inchangably with their Spanish equivalents. Examples are Joan=Juan; Pere=Pedro; Vicens=Vicente; Madrona=Magdalena; Elisabet=Isabel; etc. This was also a period of a "sound-shift" -- the most apparent one found in these records is the shift from "v" to "b" -- for instance: Estevan>Esteban and Elisavet>Elisabet.

In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the family name for this line of Moré's was usually given as Moré y Garriga or Garriga y Moré -- not using it in the normal Spanish sense of a maternal surname. This usage was probably to distinguish the two principal Moré families in Tossa -- Moré y Garriga and Moré y Parot -- which intermarried in the case of the two Moré y Garriga sons we see here. Clara [MORÉ] and Jaume MORÉ were married.

769. Clara [MORÉ] was born (date unknown).

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